Medicine

Study Finds no Evidence that an Aspirin a Day Lowers Risk of Fractures in Healthy Older People

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public DomainA group of investigators associated with multiple organizations in Australia and the United States has discovered that taking an aspirin daily does not reduce the danger of bone ruptures in healthy older individuals. In their paper publicized in JAMA Internal Medicine, the team explains their investigation, which contained providing hundreds of...

Investigators Look Into Combating Tumours With Magnetic Bacteria

Magnetic bacteria (gray) can squeeze through narrow intercellular spaces to cross the blood vessel wall and infiltrate tumors. Credit: Yimo Yan / ETH ZurichScientists worldwide are investigating how anti-cancer drugs can most efficiently reach the tumours they target. One probability is to use modified bacteria as "ferries" to bring the medications with the blood...

A Molecular-Based, Finite-State Device

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public DomainA little group of scientists at the College of Manchester has created a method for producing a molecular based, finite-state device. Their research study was released in the journal Nature.In computer science, there is a virtual tool referred to as a Turing machine, established by Alan Turing as a means to...

An Automatically Adjusting Exoskeleton that Adapts to Your Way of Walking

A close-up of the untethered exoskeleton. Credit: Stanford University.A new robotic, boot-like exoskeleton utilizes wearable sensors to adapt to each individual that wears it, marking a considerable progression for robotics. The device, explained in a study released yesterday, helps address one of the major obstacles in developing systems that aid people to walk:...

The Most Advanced AI-powered Prosthetics ‘Ever Created’

Utah Bionic Leg. Credit: University of UtahScientists from the University of Utah have created the most sophisticated AI-powered prosthetics "ever created," prompting Ottobock, the world's largest prosthetic manufacturer, to team up, launching the project internationally.https://twitter.com/UUtah/status/1578482268091211776?s=20&t=To8VYjrAITT-HDAaByZdxwThe university's Tommaso Lenzi, associate professor at the university's Department of Mechanical Engineering and director of the Bionic Engineering Lab,...

Light Accelerates Conductivity In Nature’s ‘Electric Grid’

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public DomainThe natural world has its own intrinsic electrical grid composed of a world web of tiny bacteria-generated nanowires in the soil and seas that "breathe" by exhaling excess electrons.In a new study, Yale College researchers found that light is an unexpected ally in fostering this electronic activity within biofilm bacteria. Revealing bacteria-produced...

Elon Musk is Reportedly Considering Investment in Neuralink’s Rival Brain Chip Company

Neuralink, a company co-founded by Elon Musk, has been working on an implantable brain machine interface since 2016. While it previously showed its progress by showing a Macaque ape managing the cursor in a game of Pong, it still has to start human tests. Now, according to Reuters, Elon Musk has reached out to...

New Computational Approach Creates Spatial Maps of Single-Cell Data Within Tissues

A hairpin loop from a pre-mRNA. Highlighted are the nucleobases (green) and the ribose-phosphate backbone (blue). Note that this is a single strand of RNA that folds back upon itself. Credit: Vossman/ WikipediaA new computational method created by researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center successfully matches data from correspondent gene-expression...

This Biohacker Became the First Person to Edit His Own DNA

Credit: CI Photos/ShutterstockJosiah Zayner is the first individual known to have modified his personal DNA and he revealed the planet just how easy it is to do, live-streaming the process on his blog, "Science, Art, Beauty". Zayner claims this was the second time he has genetically changed himself.Utilizing CRISPR, a fairly new gene-editing method,...

Bacteria with Recording Function Capture Gut Health Status

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public DomainOur intestine is residence to plenty of bacteria, which help us digest food. However, just what do the microorganisms do inside the body? Which enzymes do they create, and when? And how do the bacteria metabolize health-promoting foods that aid us in minimizing disease?To obtain replies to such matters, researchers at...